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No Jokes About Dope: Morse V. Frederick's Educational Rationale, Emily Gold Waldman
No Jokes About Dope: Morse V. Frederick's Educational Rationale, Emily Gold Waldman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This piece begins with a “protective” reading of Morse v. Frederick, showing how this rationale provides a good starting point in understanding Morse but is ultimately incomplete. Indeed, Justice Stevens’ dissent is largely an argument that the protective rationale falls short here. I then re-examine Morse from the perspective of the educational rationale and conclude that the underlying, largely unstated premise of the Morse majority is that schools—as part of teaching students about the gravity of drug use—should be able to convey disapproval of messages suggesting that drug use is a joking or trivial matter. This helps to explain why …
University Imprimaturs On Student Speech: The Certification Cases, Emily Gold Waldman
University Imprimaturs On Student Speech: The Certification Cases, Emily Gold Waldman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The Article begins in Part I by describing these three student speech cases and then examining what makes them a distinct category within the larger student speech landscape. As I discuss, the student speech framework was largely developed by the Supreme Court in the K-12 public school context. Conflicts over student speech in universities, in turn, have generally centered on the extent to which the K-12 framework should carry over to the higher education context, given the greater independence and maturity of university students. Recent cases about universities' ability to control student publications, for example, fall into this mold, with …